Australia In Arms

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• A crucial on-the-ground account of the Australian Imperial Forces’ Gallipoli campaign by one of Australia’s key World War I correspondents • Phillip Schuler was a junior reporter at the Age, where his father was the editor, when he embarked on the First Convoy in 1914. He volunteered as correspondent at Gallipoli • Schuler’s evocative and insightful dispatches from Gallipoli captured both the heroism and the horror of Australians at war, and became crucial in shaping the Anzac legend • Australia in Arms, published in 1916 on Schuler’s return to Australia, features the first full-length account of Australia’s role in the Dardanelles campaign • Australia in Arms joins a range of war classics that includes Fear Drive My Feet and The Odd Angry Shot, among the most popular titles on the Text Classics list • Schuler’s crucial work has only briefly been in print over the past century • This edition is introduced by bestselling author and renowned military historian Paul Ham